Teaching Activity

Summer semester 20

• Project seminar: Storytelling between text and image: Intermedia learning from illustrated manuscripts to comics
• Seminar: Fabulous animals: Narrative designs of animality in literature and culture
• Advanced seminar with a research-oriented focus on human-animal studies: Friend and foe, hunter and prey: animal narratives from the Middle Ages to the present day
• Project seminar: Learning with heroes: childhood narratives in topic-oriented literature lessons

winter semester 19/20

• Project seminar: Shaping heroes - shaping heroes: Mittelalterliche Literatur im Erklär- und Lernvideo [Explanatory and educational videos are short video clips, also known as "explainers" or "how-to videos". They present their content in different formats (e.g. in the form of animated drawings or in the personal appearance of a teacher) and present a subject in a simple and understandable way. Storytelling and multi-sensory elements are therefore characteristic of this special teaching format. The project seminar will focus on this teaching and learning format and test its potential together using the "Song of the Nibelungs"].
• Seminar: Medieval storytelling in the media network [The focus is on heroic-epic and Arthurian storytelling and diachronic forms of reception in different media are compared. In addition to imparting basic knowledge of the source narratives and exemplary analyses from various media contexts, special emphasis will be placed on narrative and media-theoretical approaches].
• Seminar: Risky? Adventurous storytelling in historical change [source text: Hartmann von Aue "Iwein"]
• Advanced seminar: To Marvel: Encounters with the "Stranger" in Medieval Literature [diversity-conscious research approaches are tested using the verse narrative "Herzog Ernst B"]

Summer semester 19

• Seminar: "Fundamentals of Early German Language and Literature II" using the example of the "Song of the Nibelungs"

Winter semester 18/19

• Seminar with first semester introduction: "Clever as a fox? Animal narratives from the Middle Ages to the present day" [texts and media: Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg's Book of Nature, fable poetry, Reinhart Fuchs, Reinecke Fuchs, media reception].
• Advanced seminar with a research-oriented focus on human-animal studies: "Clever as a fox? Animal narratives from the Middle Ages to the present day" [texts and media: Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Book of Nature, fable poetry, Reinhart Fuchs, Reinecke Fuchs, media reception].

Summer semester 18

• Seminar: "Retellingold fairy tales: Medieval reception and literary learning".
• Seminar: "Animal-human transformations: Transformation processes in medieval literature" [texts: Der Busant, Friedrich von Schwaben, Melusine, Wolfdietrich].

Winter semester 15/16

• Advanced seminar: "Sprachgewaltig: Darstellungsformen und Funktionen von Gewalt in mittelalterlicher Literatur" [Texts: Erec, Parzival, Tristan, Diu Crône, Rolandslied].

Summer semester 15

• Interdisciplinary advanced seminar together with Dr. M. Böth (Early Modern History): "The pursuit of happiness: conceptions of happiness in the Middle Ages and early modern period" [Texts: Iwein, Diu Crône, Melusine, Fortunatus, Narrenschiff, Adolph Freiherr von Knigge, Geschichte des armen Herrn von Mildenburg, Ferdinand Beneke Die Tagebücher, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Paul et Virginie, Unterhaltungen zur Beförderung der häuslichen Glückseligkeit by Heinrich Matthias August Cramer].

Winter semester 14/15

• Seminar: "Wo die Liebe hinfällt: Paarbeziehungen in mittelalterlicher Literatur" [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Parzival, Tristan, medial reception].
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Ästhetik des Monströsen: Animal-human beings in medieval literature' [Texts: Isidore of Seville, Konrad von Megenberg, cartography e.g. Ebstorf world map, Schedel'sche Weltchronik, Arolser Weltchronik, Arthurian romances, Melusine, prophecy in pamphlets, transformation narratives].

Summer semester 14

• Seminar: "Animal narration: Der Fuchs als literarische Grenzfigur vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit"[Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Buch der Natur, fable poetry, Reinhart Fuchs, Reinecke Fuchs, medial reception].

Winter semester 13/14

• Advanced seminar: "Too beautiful to be true: Perception, interpretation and evaluation of the beautiful" [Texts: Erec, Iwein, Tristan, Nibelungenlied, fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, animal-bridegroom tales and media reception].
• Lecture as part of the lecture series "Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung. Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung" of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (04.02.2013) on the topic "Doing Gender" using the example of Das fließende Licht der Gottheit by Mechthild von Magdeburg together with M. Böth (Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit).
• Interdisciplinary research colloquium in collaboration with Dr. J. Münkner (Modern German Literature) entitled "Mysticism - The Longing for the Absolute". Fourteen researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds (German language history and medieval studies, art and early modern history, historical contemporary history in the medium of film, theology, philosophy and modern German literature) will examine the elusive concept of the mystical.

Summer semester 13

• Seminar: "Of lions, dragons and unicorns. Appearance and function of animals in medieval literature" [texts: Physiologus, Konrad von Megenberg Buch der Natur, Conrad Gessner Thierbuch, Erec, Iwein, Parzival, Tristan, Nibelungenlied, Herzog Ernst, fable poetry, Reinhart Fuchs].

Winter semester 12/13

• Advanced seminar: "Laughter in/about the Middle Ages. Criteria and categories of the comic [Texts: Song of the Nibelungs, Tristan, Parzival, fairy tale and humor poetry as well as the reception of the Middle Ages in literature and film].
• Lecture as part of the lecture series "Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung. An interdisciplinary introduction" of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies (06.02.2012) on the topic "Doing Gender" using the example of "Diu Crône" by Heinrich von dem Türlin together with M. Böth (History of the Early Modern Period).

Summer semester 12

• Seminar: "Grundlagen der älteren deutschen Sprache und Literatur II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's "Erec".
• Research seminar and colloquium for Master's students "Intersectionality and Narration II" in collaboration with PD. Dr. M. Mecklenburg [Texts: Minnesang, fairy tale poetry].
• Lecture within the medieval introductory lecture by Prof. Dr. M. Mecklenburg "Grundlagen der älteren Sprache und Literatur I" (19.12.2013): "Mann-Sein / Frau-Sein oder Nicht-Sein, das ist hier die Frage: doing gender im Mittelalter" [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Diu Crône].

winter semester 11/12

• Interdisciplinary seminar together with M. Böth (Early Modern History): "The journey is the destination? Reisebeschreibungen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit"; open to the study program of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung [Texts: Iwein, Duke Ernst, Travels of Jehan de Mandeville, Travel Diary of Johann Rudolphi, Kavaliersreise Franz Anton Freiherr von Landsberg, Travel Diary of Sophie von La Roche, Leonharti Rauwolfen, Lady Mary Montagu].
• Inter-university advanced seminar for Master students and advanced BA students together with PD Dr. M. Mecklenburg: "Intersectionality and Narration"; in cooperation with the Germanic Medieval Studies of the Universities of Frankfurt, Gießen and Marburg as part of the study group "Historical Intersectionality Research", Research Center for Historical Humanities of the Goethe University Frankfurt [texts: Iwein, Duke Ernst, King Rother, Nibelungenlied].
• Lecture as part of the lecture series "Ansätze der Geschlechterforschung. Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung" of the IAG Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (14.12.2011) on the topic "Doing Gender" using the example of the "Nibelungenlied" together with M. Böth (Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit).

Summer semester 11

• Seminar: "Grundlagen der älteren deutschen Sprache und Literatur II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's"Iwein".

winter semester 10/11

• Seminar: "Moving images - moving images: Medieval reception in film".

Summer semester 10

• Seminar: "Fundamentals of Early German Language and Literature II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's "Iwein".
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Johann Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Das abenteuerliche Leben des Simplicius Simplicissimus".

winter semester 09/10

• Seminar in German Medieval Studies and in the study program of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies: "Liebe, Lust und Leidenschaft: Formen von Emotionalität in mittelalterlicher Epik" [Texts: Nibelungenlied, Erec, Iwein, Parzival, Diu Crône, Tristan].
• Guest lecture in the medieval lecture by Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde "Grundlagen der älteren Sprache und Literatur I": "gender-Transport: Mediale Rezeptionsgeschichte des Nibelungenstoffs vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne".

Summer semester 09

• Seminar: "Grundlagen der älteren deutschen Sprache und Literatur II" using the example of Hartmann von Aue's "Armen Heinrich".

Winter semester 08/09

• Seminar: "Gregorius, the good sinner? A 'legendary novel' by Hartmann von Aue".
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Tod - Trauer - Trost: Sterbebüchlein - Trauerklagen - Leichenpredigten in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit".
• Advanced seminar together with Prof. Dr. C. Brinker-von der Heyde: "Raum und Geschlecht in der Literatur des Mittelalters" [Texts: Erec, Iwein, Wigalois, Gregorius, Parzival, Jüngerer Titurel, Diu Crône, Tristan].

Summer semester 08

• Seminar: "Wernher der Gartenaere 'Helmbrecht': eine mittelhochdeutsche Verserzählung".

winter semester 07/08

• Seminar in German Medieval Studies and in the study program of the IAG Women's and Gender Studies: "Konstruktionen von Geschlecht im Nibelungenlied und neuzeitlichen Nibelungenliedbearbeitungen

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5/2010

• Guest seminar at the Philipps University of Marburg as part of Dr. Nathanael Busch's medieval reception seminar: "The regulating effect of women? Gender conceptions in the Song of the Nibelungs".

10/2009

• Teaching stay at the Institute of German Studies of the European partner university Szeged (Hungary) as part of the "Master German Studies with binational focus", the Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) and the ERASMUS Lecturer Mobility of the University of Kassel (two proseminars and one lecture). The "Master of German Studies with a Binational Focus" is a binational degree program of the Universities of Kassel and Szeged, funded by the DAAD program "Integrated International Degree Programs with Double Degree".

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